New Blu-ray Reviews

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2019 | 161 min | Rated R | Dec 10, 2019 | Randy Miller III

A story that takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood. The two lead characters are Rick Dalton, former star of a western TV series, and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth. Both are struggling to make it in a Hollywood they don’t recognize anymore. But Rick has a new next-door neighbor, who may be a rising star…Sharon Tate.

Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Dark humor / Period

Acceleration Blu-ray Movie  

Cinedigm | 2019 | 85 min | Not rated | Dec 17, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A crime lord gives an operative one night to make up for double-crossing him by eliminating his long list of enemies.

Action / Thriller

Ad Astra 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

20th Century Fox | 2019 | 124 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 17, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An Army Corps engineer searches across the galaxy for his father, who disappeared on a mission to find alien life 20 years ago.

Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi

Days of Wine and Roses Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1962 | 117 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2019 | Michael Reuben

A San Francisco public-relations hotshot is a "social" drinker...who never stops socializing. His vivacious wife starts drinking to keep him company. They live for good times. But eventually good times turn bad.

Drama / Romance

Don't Bother to Knock Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1952 | 76 min | Not rated | Dec 10, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson

An unstable young woman (Marilyn Monroe) attempts to commit suicide whilst working as a babysitter in a hotel. She is saved by a handsome airline pilot (Richard Widmark), who has just split up from the hotel's resident singer (Anne Bancroft in her film debut). From this unlikely beginning, a relationship develops which helps them both come to terms with their personal problems.

Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller

Don't Bother to Knock Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition to 3000

Twilight Time | 1952 | 76 min | Not rated | Mar 20, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Larson

An unstable young woman (Marilyn Monroe) attempts to commit suicide whilst working as a babysitter in a hotel. She is saved by a handsome airline pilot (Richard Widmark), who has just split up from the hotel's resident singer (Anne Bancroft in her film debut). From this unlikely beginning, a relationship develops which helps them both come to terms with their personal problems.

Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller

Ad Astra Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

20th Century Fox | 2019 | 124 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 17, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An Army Corps engineer searches across the galaxy for his father, who disappeared on a mission to find alien life 20 years ago.

Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi

Tammy and the T-Rex Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Vinegar Syndrome | 1994 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 91 min | Rated R | Jan 28, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

An evil scientist implants the brain of Michael, a murdered high school student, in an animatronic Tyrannosaurus. He escapes, wreaks vengeance on his high school tormentors and is reunited with his sweetheart Tammy. Together, the couple try to elude the mad scientist and the police and find a more appropriate vessel for Michael's brain.

Comedy / Sci-Fi

Delivery Boys Blu-ray Movie  

Scorpion Releasing | 1985 | 92 min | Rated R | Nov 19, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

In one of the last breakdancing movies of the mid-'80s, two competing breakdancing teams have their eye on a $10,000 prize in an upcoming contest. Three of the dancers on one team work as pizza delivery boys. Mean-spirited Spider (Mario van Peebles) from the opposing team convinces the gullible pizza boss that the three must be detained so they can't enter the contest. So one of the three is set up to make a delivery to a gorgeous woman who seduces him. The second is sent to a hospital where he's given new medicine that sidelines him for the rest of the day. And the third is sent to a gallery where he breaks a statue in an exhibition opening that evening and is forced to pose as the broken image, wearing only a fig leaf.

Comedy / Sport

The Story of Temple Drake Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1933 | 71 min | Not rated | Dec 03, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

When a boozehound date strands her at a bootleggers' hideout, Temple Drake, the coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge, is subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.

Drama

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 3D Blu-ray Movie    

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2017 | 119 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Apr 30, 2018 | Neil Lumbard

In a brand new Jumanji adventure, four high school kids discover an old video game console and are drawn into the game's jungle setting, literally becoming the adult avatars they chose. What they discover is that you don't just play Jumanji - you must survive it. To beat the game and return to the real world, they'll have to go on the most dangerous adventure of their lives, discover what Alan Parrish left 20 years ago, and change the way they think about themselves - or they'll be stuck in the game forever.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy

None But the Brave Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1965 | 106 min | Not rated | Jun 11, 2019 | Randy Miller III

A crippled C-47 transport crash-lands on a remote Pacific island. For the Marines aboard, World War II becomes smaller but no less deadly. The atoll is held by a Japanese platoon, also cut off from its command. After initial bullet-laced confrontations, the Japanese leader offers to swap water for the aid of Pharmacist Mate Maloney, whom he’s mistaken for a doctor. When Maloney amputates the leg of a Japanese soldier and saves his life, peace results. But can it last? There are two sides to every war.

Drama / War

Judy Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 118 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 24, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.

Biography / Drama / Music / Romance / Period

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud Blu-ray Movie  

Nelly et M. Arnaud

Kino Lorber | 1995 | 106 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

When Nelly, a woman being just divorced, meets by chance M. Arnaud, a mature salesman just retired, begins a strange and special relationship between the two personalities.

Drama / Romance / Foreign

Freaks Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Well Go USA | 2018 | 105 min | Rated R | Dec 10, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A bold girl discovers a bizarre, threatening, and mysterious new world beyond her front door after she escapes her father's protective and paranoid control.

Drama / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2019 | 162 min | Rated R | Dec 10, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A story that takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood. The two lead characters are Rick Dalton, former star of a western TV series, and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth. Both are struggling to make it in a Hollywood they don’t recognize anymore. But Rick has a new next-door neighbor, who may be a rising star…Sharon Tate.

Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Dark humor / Period

Silver Bullet Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition

Shout Factory | 1985 | 95 min | Rated R | Dec 17, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

The small town of Tarker's Mill was a place that was very peaceful, where nothing ever happened. Until one night, murders begin. The town people believe its some maniac killer on the loose and intend to hunt the man down. Marty, a young handicapped boy, believes that the killer is no man at all, but a werewolf.

Adventure / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

The Harvesters Blu-ray Movie  

Die Stropers

Altered Innocence | 2018 | 107 min | Not rated | Dec 10, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love.

Drama / Foreign

Glorifying the American Girl Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1929 | 95 min | Not rated | Dec 03, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

Gloria, Barbara and Buddy are working at the sheet music counter in a New York department store. On a trip of the whole store, Gloria, who's in love with Buddy, is spotted by vaudeville hoofer Miller, whom his partner Mooney, like her predecessors, has just left. Miller tours with Gloria and both are spotted by Ziegfeld's talent scouts, just before they were splitting up, leaving Gloria with a contract giving Miller a part of her earnings in the next few years. Gloria becomes the star of a new Ziegfeld production, but Barbara, who has been pining for buddy for quite a while, seems to have more luck with him.

Comedy / Drama / Musical

Christmas in July Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1940 | 67 min | Not rated | Nov 26, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

A workplace practical joke goes awry when an office clerk (Dick Powell), believing he has won a $25,000 prize, takes his girlfriend (Ellen Drew) on an extravagant Christmas shopping spree…in the middle of July! When the truth comes out, he's not prepared for the consequences.

Comedy / Romance